Hoth Headcanons and the Saga of Stabby
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| Fanwork | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Hoth Headcanons and the Saga of Stabby |
| Creator: | various |
| Date(s): | 2016-2017 |
| Medium: | Tumblr |
| Fandom: | Star Wars |
| External Links: | Tumblr thread |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Hoth Headcanons and the Saga of Stabby is a collection of headcanons about the Tumblr character/meme Stabby the Space Roomba in the Star Wars universe. Although many different users have added to the thread, one of the best known versions includes contributions from peradii, kyraneko, arctic-hands, dafterwho, digitaldiscipline and copperbadge.
A podfic version by bessyboo is available on A03.
Excerpts
We all know that Hoth was a simmering mess of hormones and stress and I would pay good money for a soap opera about them. Here are some things which Definitely Happened... Luke tapes a knife to a cleaning droid (disc-shaped things that swish around the base, sucking up dirt) and names it Stabby. Why, says Leia. Luke, the boy from Tatooine, shining and happy despite everything says why not. Why not indeed. Stabby is very fond of chasing Han. Han wants desperately to shoot the fucking thing– but then he sees big-eyed Luke and sharp-toothed Leia cooing over it and, well. A little bit of light stabbing is nothing, compared to those two smiling. [1]
Compromise: shortly after losing the Millennium Falcon, Vader, storming through the Rebel base, is startled to feel a sudden jolt of pain from the artificial sensors on his left leg prosthetic: a sharp sensation on his ankle. Surprised, because he sensed no threat–is the limb malfunctioning?–he looks down, and there is a cleaning droid with a knife taped to it, a little painted-on Rebel lieutenant’s insignia, and the word STABBY written on it. ... Vader hasn’t done much just for the fun of it in two decades. Watching Imperial officers swear and clutch their ankles as a cleaning drone with a knife taped to it, an Imperial emblem, lieutenant’s insignia, and the word STABBY painted on it, bumps into them and then chatters triumphantly, he’s figured he’s earned. [2]
Grand Moff Tarkin limps into Vader’s quarters. Again. “Lord Vader, enough of this.”“I have altered the droid; pray I do not alter it any further.”
(If there’s one thing young Anakin Skywalker can appreciate, it’s a hot-rodded maintenance droid, c’mon.)[3]
“Hey!” calls a teenaged Poe Dameron, walking into the Droid repair shop. “I got this decommissioned BB-8 chassis they said to bring in here. It needs a new owner. Captain said I can have it if I can find a new mechanism for it.”The Master Droid Tech looks at Stabby, then at the BB-8 chassis, then back at Stabby. Stabby turns his unsheathed ocular sensor to Poe and beeps adoringly. (This is a common if relatively new reaction to Poe Dameron, who has just graduated from his Awkward Stage.)
“Yeah, I got one for you right here,” the Tech says, grinning. [4]